Snippet #2768548

"Which of the gym leaders were here? The guard only told us that Elesa was here but wasn't present to see the others. I did hear something about Clay showing up though. One of the miners seemed troubled by the fact he would leave Driftveil. Elesa is the Electric leader here in Nimbasa and Clay is the ground type one in Driftveil just to the west of here."

It was then that James had jogged over, worried about Shirona.

"Hey, everything ok, Sis? Oh, a Chimchar. Is he lost?"

"No. He's here doing what we are, finding out about this enemy. It seems he wishes to aide in the battle in some way shape or form."

"Ah, well any help is welcome. My name is James. Rather bold for you to come here by yourself despite this rain"

"Actually, it doesn't affect him. Which is odd considering he is a Pokemon."

"But what if he isn't?"

"What do you mean?"

"I don't know. But I know humans aren't hurt by it nearly as much as Pokemon, so perhaps he's a human. There have been cases of that happening. Remember Bill? We found him prancing about as a Ponyta a while back."

"I'm unsure if he learns from his mistakes with that machine...But still that wouldn't explain anything. You still get hurt from the rain, James."

"Point. Anyway, sorry for just jumping in, I was worried about you since you were taking so long."

"Well thank you for the concern. Now, back to our previous topic. While those are the only two gym leaders we found that came here, despite there being a consensus of others showing up, there is one in almost every city. In Castelia, where the castle is, is Burgh with...eugh... Bug types. We didn't see him on the scene so he may have left before it started. If you need the locations of the others, I am sorry to say I do not remember all of them. Is there anything else you need to know, little one?"

James stood in silent thought, "A Pokemon all on his own...But he has some knowledge of the goings on despite being from Sinnoh...Hmm. I mean a solo Pokemon isn't surprising to see, but this one has something special about him, especially if Shirona needed to leave to see him. Well I know of some Pokemon that work in teams like the gang that tried to run a berry business in Veilstone... He certainly isn't a gang member... Maybe from one of those rescue teams I used to see every now and then going to Wayward Cave back home but even then news wouldn't travel THAT fast. Ugh what is he?"

"Hey. What are you? You part of something larger? There is no way that a Pokemon from my home region, Sinnoh, knows about this only a few hours after it happened. You're obviously in some bracket of intelligence."

"You can't just go and ask that out of the blue!"

"I can, and I did. He doesn't have to answer, but an answer would be nice all the same."